Posted on 10/01/2020 3:40:40 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised the possibility that she might become acting president if neither President Trump nor Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins enough electoral votes to declare victory in the election on or after Nov. 3.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters Thursday that she is preparing House Democrats for a potential role in determining the winner with a vote by each state delegation.
But if a majority still does not emerge for either Trump or Biden, Pelosi said, “then it goes into another range where the speaker becomes the [president]. It’s complicated after that.”
It is rare for the House to play a role in determining the outcome of a presidential election, and it hasn’t happened in 150 years. But Pelosi is girding party lawmakers to play a role if the election is so close that neither Trump nor Biden is the electoral winner.
In such a scenario, each House state delegation would cast one vote for president, depending on the majority party in each delegation.
Pelosi said she is aiming for Democrats to be able to cast at least 26 votes, a bare majority, which would hand the White House to Biden.
The Senate, meanwhile, would be empowered with voting to determine the vice president.
But if the House delegation results in a 25-25 tie and the Senate can’t agree on a vice presidential winner, Pelosi would become acting president, according to the 1947 Presidential Succession Act.
Republicans currently have the advantage in state delegations, and last month, Pelosi wrote to Democrats and urged the party to focus on flipping seats with Nov. 3 wins in Alaska and Montana, which now have GOP majorities. Additionally, Pennsylvania's delegation is split 9-9, so picking up a seat in November could give the Democrats an edge.
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ZKQX!!
(That’s an encrypted acronym, since we can’t cuss on FR.)
If something like this transpired, something THIS improbable.... then it would become clear to me that it is an engineered hard coup. It would be time to respond accordingly.
This feels like a troll.
Of course, that's part of their strategy: throw the election into chaos, and she comes in the save us all from ourselves.
It's an old, old, old, old ploy.
And to hell with the American People!
Raising? She has been drooling over the possibilty for years.
Not so fast, reps are voted on every 2 years but senators are voted on every 6 years, staggered 2-2-2. So if the house cannot properly convene Then the senate probably will convene and the current president pro team of the senate is Charles grassley.
She really clearly is insane. These demons are really showing themselves now.
On the one hand, we have these people, and on the other hand a man who motto is "Make America Great!", who donates his Presidential salary to charity, who says: "The best is yet to come!" who embraces the American Flag!
Nobody with and IQ above moron-level has any problem with this choice.
President pro team -> president pro tem
Stupid autocorrect lol
It won’t be her-— making a biiiiiig assumption she would be the Speaker. She obviously doesn’t know the Constitution— only the parts she thinks it says.
Congress convenes at noon on January 3rd. The terms of the President and Vice President expire at noon on January 29th. So Pence would cast the tie breaker.
One would assume for himself.
Never happen.. I trust in unstabilized people more than her....
NAZI Pelosi.
Assuming she’s speaker. Just sayin’.
Indeed this is true— and part of my previous comment here. She is making, as usual, a LOT of assumptions, including there will not be a clear winner...EARLY and by NOV 3rd night.
Really arrogant drunken trollop, who has been there waaaay too long.
Nancy should sit back, relax and enjoy her Last Election
I thought that this scenario was disproven. If, for some reason, no candidate receives 270 electors then the “incoming” House decides the President and the “incoming” Senate decides the Vice President.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_election
The only way Pelosi becomes President is:
* Democrats hold the House
* She rallys a majority of House votes to select herself
Very unlikely.
Are we forgetting the obxxx years?
If they do this, it is an overthrow based upon fraud and we will revolt with all that implies.
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